Deaf!Orphan!Reader x Axis

3rd POV:

The rest of the children looked up immediately as the door opened, the wood scraping across the floor. Three men walked in, sitting across from them. In all, there was four children. Two female, two male. The interpreter smiled at _____, to which she smiled back. The interpreter, who was the only one who knew sign language in the whole place besides her, was ______'s best and only friend.

"Vee~ Ciao, children!" a bubbly man started. "You're all so cute!" he pinched their cheeks. ______ jumped and swatted his hand away. He tilted his head. "Hold on, bella, I think there's something in your hair..." he mumbled, feeling around her ear until he got a hold of _____'s hearing aid. She shook her head profusely, not wanting him to remove it. She didn't want him to know just yet... Nor did she want him to point it out in front of the other children.

But, her struggles were pointless. The man removed her hearing aid, much to her disapproval. Her small bit useless hearing faded immediately, and she crossed her arms as the other children laughed and whispered to each other. ______ snatched the machine from the man's hand, putting it back in her ear and sitting back in her chair, crossing her arms over her chest. The tallest of the three men pinched the bridge of his nose, patting the spot next to him. "It-- Veneziano, sit." the smaller male complied, sitting in his spot. They all questioned the four, before leaving quickly. As soon as they all got into the hall and closed the door, both men chastised Veneziano.

"Itary-san, you need to be more considerate of peopre's feerings." the smallest, Kiku, scolded.

"You hurt her feelings, you stupid! Why did you do that!? She's just a child!" the largest, Ludwig, frowned at him. "You will be punished, Italy." he mumbled as they walked into the Head Mistress's office.

"Hello~!" she smiled at the three. "Have you made a decision on who you want to adopt?" she asked politely.

They all nodded. "______." they answered in unison.

The Head Mistress grimaced. "Are you sure you want HER?" she asked, making the three frown.

"Listen up voman! ______ is a vonderful child, who you haven't given the chance because she's a bit different from the other children! Now, ve vould like to adopt zat little girl. Because she is zhe only child in your whole orphanage who isn't a brat!!" he seethed, slamming his hands on her desk. The woman frowned, but didn't object, as it would be easier for her to just let them take her.

~Time skip~

_____ sat in the back seat of the men's car, waving goodbye to her interpreter as they drove off. The man who you'd come to realize is Veneziano, sat in the back seat with you, as Ludwig said that he didn't want him driving.

 'Do any of them even KNOW sign language? Do they think that it's just spelling the words? Because I'm not a good speller and if they only know the letters....' she thought for a while about her new parents.

Meanwhile, the Italian man beside her was blabbering away, not really minding that ______ wouldn't respond. He started combing through her (h/l) silky (h/c) locks with his fingers, humming a small tune. She jumped, looking over at him before shivering. He didn't have his eyes open. Was he blind? _____ knew some people who were blind. Sometimes they didn't keep their eyes open because there wasn't any point. She picked up a dry-erase board she was given one year for her birthday, and wrote in the best handwriting she could muster, 'Is he blind?', and showed it to the man in the front seat. He looked back and shook his head at her, handing it back.

Erasing the words with her sleeve, ______ drew a picture of a bunny rabbit. 

"Ve're home." Came the man from the front seat. The three men got out. Though, _____ was too wrapped up in her drawing to notice. They went inside, thinking she was following. About ten minutes later, the rabbit was done. And it was perfect! Her best one yet! She couldn't wait to show her parents...

Except she had no idea where they were. 

'Werent they just in here?' She thought. 'Did they forget about me?' Sighing, she got out of the car with her bag and walked slowly inside. 

As soon as she stepped inside, she was tackled to the ground and smothered in a bone-crushing hug. 

"Bella!! Where have you been?! We were worried sick about you!!" Veneziano shouted, stretching some of the vowels to try and sort of coax her into hearing. Rolling her eyes, shoved him off, taking a deep breath. Erasing the beautiful rabbit, she wrote, 'That hurt, meanie. And I was in the car. Am I THAT easy to forget? Is it because I'm SO different from you that you just didnt know how to TALK to me?!' She threw the board at him and signed, 'Whatever. I'm going to go hide.' And so, she ran off, eventually hiding in a closet on the second floor, playing with a rubber ducky as she cried.

Veneziano's eyes started to water. He picked up the board and held it close to his chest. "Vee..." He mumbled sadly, asking Germany to look for her, since he thought that she hated him and it would just get worse if he found her.

The German sighed and searched the house from top to bottom, not find a trace of the girl. "She hasn't even been ours for twenty minutes and alread Italy is an awful parent..." he mumbled.

_______ sniffled, rubbing her eyes with her sleeve. She signed to the duck, who she'd given a life story and a name several minutes ago.

'Bob, what am I going to do? I'm happy I was adopted.. But what if they make me go to a hearing school? They already forgot me in the car!' She whipped tears off of her small face. 'Did you have to go to a hearing school, Bob?' She signed, moving the duck so that he shook his head. 'Did you make friends with the other deaf ducks?' She made him nod. 'Do you think they'd like me if I went to a all deaf school?' The duck didn't move.

Germany heard her whimpers and sniffles and knocked on the closet door. Remembering that she couldn't hear him, he just opened it. 

_______ jumped, scorching back out of the light that flooded the small closet.

Germany picked her up, setting her on his lap. He held her board in his hand and wrote: 'Im sorry about Venezaino. He's just stupid. I promise that we will take better care of you. We'll learn to sign, too, ja?' She looked up at him and nodded, wiping her tears with small hands. He smiled slightly, kissing her forehead. There was a bright flash from down the hall, making them both turn. 

There, stood at the end of the hall, was Kiku, holding a camera and going on to Veneziano about how cute the little one was.

Said man walked down the hall and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Bella, I'm sorry." He said, slowly, to make sure she could read his lips, but not too slow to make her feel uncomfortable.

She shook her head, signing, 'No, Im sorry. I shouldn't have been a bad girl.' She hugged him, making him grin.

"I'll make-a pasta to celebrate!" He giggled.

Germany face-palmed. "ITALY!! DON'T BURN ZHE HOUSE DOWN!!" 

______rubbed the ear with her hearing aid in. "I heard that one..." She tried her hardest to speak properly.

Kiku tried to hide a chuckle while Ludwig just facepalmed. ______ laughed.

'Maybe this family isn't so bad after all...'